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The image tell the whole story Eric. He was still clutching his camera, seconds before he was executed. I have canceled my trip to Burma. I don't mind a whiff of tear gas, or a blow from a cane, but execution in the street it just too much. I am amazed at the courage of the photographer who took this shot, imagine taking it as you watch your colleague being gunned down for the same thing.

I met a wonderful Burmese nun at the World Conference of Buddhists two years ago. She invited me to go and stay in their university. I said that I would go when Burma was free. She looked at me and said" But you are an old man. I don't think you will live so long" Now, I fear she could be right. regards kevin

well, probably not that sudden for everyone :) - but all in all 1989 events in Eastern Europe
turned out to be a good thing to happen ... or better said, we are getting there - slowly,
but surely

i hope the people from Burma will get their chance, too - without too many losses and pain -
it's not an easy thing to live through (and honestly speaking i think we were mostly fortunate
around here - if we talk strictly about those events)

sorry for the japanese photographer killed in rangoon, and also for each and for every
photographer hurt or killed in such unfair events - they all deserve nothing
but our deepest respect and sympathy ... even more because some of us around here like to think
about ourselves as photographers, even if not professionals - but photographers - and can imagine,
with a bit of empathy - even if to a very little extent - what the japanese photographer went
through ... or we can try to imagine that - through the simple act of pointing the camera

Hi... I was suspected to be a journalist too... My all luggage was broken in my hotel while i went out to eat dinner... nothing stolen, but everything scattered in the room and locked bag broken to check everything... That was three weeks ago....

I haven't read this whole thread but I looked at the photo of the Japanese photographer being held at gunpoint by the soldier wearing sandals. First and foremost, may he R.I.P.
Secondly, sandals on a soldier? Looks like that third world army wouldn't be too hard to defeat, just stomp on their toes!